Screenshot

macOS (and iOS 26.1) adds an option to effectively remove the Liquid Glass effect. For me, it's a no-brainer to enable this feature. #accessibility

One by one, macOS apps like Things, Fantastical & Mimestream get the Liquid Glass treatment: transparent sidebars that overlap window content, drop shadows on toolbar buttons, and oversized rounded corners! 😒 I dread how Electron apps like Notion & Slack will attempt to “fit in” with macOS Tahoe…

Screenshot

I don’t like the abundance of SF Symbols icons that macOS Tahoe adds to my menus; they create visual clutter. I wish there were a hidden setting to turn them off. Apple taught me that less is more, and now this. Yuck 🙂

Screenshot of settings

The new Automix feature in Apple Music on macOS Tahoe (beta) is pretty neat. Similar to Automix in the Djay app (www.algoriddim.com/apps)

And this is a nice surprise: it DOES work over AirPlay (even though they say it doesn’t)! Perhaps they added this feature later and forgot to update that info.

Phim - Superfast Ephemeral Webpage Viewer Phim is a superfast, ephemeral webpage viewer. It has no history, cookies, navigation, or distractions. It's the perfect companion for Velja and Hyperduck.

In about two hours, I "vibe-coded” this. All I did was talk to my computer. AI did the rest: it built the app, deployed it to GitHub, created a marketing page, and designed the icon. Heck, it even wrote this post.

roelvangils.github.io/phim/

Claude: “Next, I will visually test the actual functionality using Playwright to ensure a smooth user experience."

Me: “I love you, Claude."

The Dyson PencilVac Fluffycones™ cleaner | Global Premiere YouTube video by Dyson

For some reason, I was more intrigued by this product launch of new vacuum cleaning tech than by everything that Google announced at Google I/O 2025! ✨

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve6J...

Claude 4 is available

OMG

Sam & Jony introduce io YouTube video by OpenAI

I don't know what to make of this yet. On one hand, it's super cringe, but on the other hand, it excites me. Sam Altman and Jony Ive have a very strange dynamic when they’re together. I'm curious to see where this is headed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=W09b...

Hehe, thanks 😁

2025-05-21 00:01:03 Celebration Kool & The Gang 2025-05-21 09:48:51 End of the World Miley Cyrus

I've been using Shazam to build a database of all the music around me. I created a small CLI utility for this: github.com/roelvangils/....

May 21 is my birthday… and look at the first song Spotify “shuffled” for me on this day! 😁

man pbpaste col -b I sed -n '/bug/I, $p' BUGS There is no way to tell pbpaste to get only a specified data type. Apple Computer, Inc. January 12, 2005 PBCOPY (1)

Some bugs will just remain unfixed forever.

Screenshot of an Apple commercial showing an iPhone almost dropping on a wooden floor.

LOL @ this Apple Commercial. C’mon, Apple, it’s not wooden floors that we are worried about! 🙄 It’s CONCRETE! 🧱

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdR3...

This screenshot of an Excel sheet shows extreme KPIs.

What's wrong with Apple? This ad is so weird! Why are we seeing Excel on the guy's screen (and not Numbers)? And why is the guy looking at a spreadsheet with extremely high KPIs? What's the message here? That only rich people can afford nano-texture displays? www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1fB...

Severance Main Theme - EPIC Piano Cover YouTube video by Katherine Cordova

This is so much harder than it looks: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAis...

macOS comes bundled with an excellent version of Chess, but did you know it also includes everyone's favorite game… Tetris? 🙂 To be more precise, it’s part of zsh, the default shell on macOS. Just open your favorite Terminal app and type:

- autoload -Uz tetriscurses && tetriscurses

Screenshot of Apple Photos with the Memories feature. I typed "That time we went on a boat trip” and it’s loading…

It looks like Apple is starting to catch up with their AI promises!

Did you know: the people who consistently refer to an Apple Watch as an "iWatch" are the same people who say "ChatGTP" instead of ChatGPT! 🫢 I'm sure it's some sort of conspiracy.

Wallpapers - Microsoft Design Enjoy this small collection of Microsoft wallpapers we curated for you.

These free wallpapers by Microsoft are actually kinda nice, even if you're a Mac user 😉 microsoft.design/wallpapers/

Xcode: "Object 0x14160ac80 deallocated with non-zero retain count 2. This object's deinit, or something called from it, may have created a strong reference to self which outlived deinit, resulting in a dangling reference.”

Say what? I think Xcode is trolling me ‘cause it knows I'm “vibe coding"… 😳

Microsoft Word Settings on macOS in 2025.

Old system preferences screenshot.

I just installed Microsoft Word on macOS because, yeah well, I had to open a complex document. When I explored its settings, I realized I miss the “spotlight on the relevant settings” search UI that Microsoft borrowed from Apple (but Apple abandoned itself five years ago) 😁 That was cool, right?

Screenshot of the order confirmation, which mentions that I ordered it on October 2, 2023

I wonder when my Limitless Pendant is finally shipping. I pre-ordered it 16 months ago. I hear they've been hard at work, and I'm pretty excited to finally try it out! 🙂

www.limitless.ai#pendant

This app keeps on improving. I cannot imagine a train ride in Belgium without this app on my phone 🙂

Jelly Mario Something is VERY wrong in the Mushroom Kingdom...

If I would play 8-bit Super Mario in a nightmare, this is probably how it would look like. Only then it would be like a first person experience. jellymar.io

Exclusive Mark Zuckerberg Unaired Interview | Austin Nasso Comedy YouTube video by Austin Nasso

Exclusive Mark Zuckerberg Interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLAZ...

Bit of both 🙂

Dell kills the XPS brand Say hello to devices like the Dell Pro Max 16 Plus.

The Dell Pro Max is real! 🤡

Jensen Huang on stage. The screen behind him shows 14 life-size robots with these futuristic names.

Humanoid robots are just around the corner, according to Jensen Huang, and they will all be powered by NVIDIA. Just look at this picture from yesterday’s keynote at CES! 😮 14 (competing!) humanoid robots are lined up in a row, some already working their mechanical asses off in Chinese factories.

Email screenshot. It says: Beste Roel, Het is bijna tijd voor je kwartaalaangifte. Dat maken we graag zo makkelijk mogelijk voor je. Bekijk en download al je facturen via Mijn Coolblue. Kan je daarna gelijk je eerste goede voornemen van 2025 afstrepen. Met een glimlach, Coolblue

That's such a Coolblue thing to do. Nice touch!

"Don't Watch the Clock" - My Video Conferencing Year in Review: Time Spent: - 13 days, 2 hours, 55 minutes on video calls - 361 total calls with 387 participants Conference Tools: 1. Google Meet (58%) 2. Microsoft Teams (33%) 3. Webex (4%) 4. Other platforms (5%)

13 days… seriously? 😵‍💫 #RaycastWrapped